Sky - larking Kite Tails are ripe in the Land of Mears

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Among the good old country dirt roads I like to travel afoot is the trail from Arnold Paulson's up over and down the hill past the Duem- ler farm . In the spring this is an inviting road to walk , not so good to drive . Half a mile up is the dictionary bush near a fallen log where the wintergreens grow . There years ago on a spring afternoon I sat down to study over the prospectus for the New International which grew in wonder as I read about it out there in the forest until I signed my name on the dotted line and bought it . A little beyond the road turns to the left and goes down the hill to the John Olsen place . but mostly I went down the hill to Mrs. Duemler's house of many cats : cats on the stove hearth , cats on the reservoir and on the lounge . I don't suppose she had many mice . Afterwards Mrs. Wieckoff lived there and then she too went away . South of Joe Marquis ' place there is a little - traveled road in the Pentwater plains . It comes out by the Jordan Holcomb cabin or where it stood before somebody ran away with the hinges and the door knob and the logs that held the plaster together . One time a man named Smith moved in there and of course his children had to go to school somewhere , so he put in an applica tion for the job of hauling his own children to Pentwater . He landed it at about $ 40 a monnth , enough to keep him agoing . so all he had te do was to hitch up the horse and take them to town . hang around Pentwater all day and bring them home at night . One of the girls was a man hunter and she grabbed off a village grocer . Yes , I would like to walk up past the Cedar Creek school again some day , all the way into Crystal Valley . The back country roads have enchantment if you walk them alone and do a lot of thinking and remembering . It's cheap too , and you don't wear out your shoes on these old sand roads like you would on the gravel . Sand roads are good for the soul and body Orel Z. Burdick , prosecuting attorney for the last term and a half . resigns to accept a job as chemical engineer for the Campbell . Wyant & Cannon fountry in Muskegon . He is a graduate of Albion College , Chicago law school and has a master's degree in chemistry from Ur- bana . Hail ! hail ! the gang's all here , William and Florence Hale mo- tored up the river road to see his mother . Mrs. George Hale . He get stuck in the mud out by Fred Budde's . He needed Charlie Hale to pull

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him out with a team of horses but Charlie was up at Smith's Corners visiting his lady friend , Mrs. Keck , so Bill hired a car to go up there to get Charlie to come back to say " whoa " and " giddap . " All that trou- ble because Bill got stuck in the mud . And was the atmosphere blue around the mudholes ? Hail ! hail ! the gang's all here ! -Riding through Canada on a train , Louis Blake Duff , the financier , read about The Mears Newz in the American Mercury Magazine and when he got to Detroit he persuaded Cecil Hunt to hunt him up some copies of the little paper that made Mears famous . Maybe he said : " Cecil , hunt around for some . " So Cecil hunted and found some : -The St. Patrick supper in Mears was a grand affair from the green stripes in the table cloth to the Irish potatoes and the violin solos . White and emerald was the crepe paper lattice work in the basement windows of the Methodist church , there was a green coolness in the jello and the cake had a green frosting with white wigglers ( shredded cocoanut to you ) . Miss Ryznar , I am so glad you brought over your vocal quartet . All in a row were Anita Shogren and the Simon sisters and Ruth Jean Moore . The public clapped for Moore . Well , for all of them , so they all came back and Simonized a song again . Miss Ryznar brought her violin along and made it quiver . So did Mr. Peterson from Bethel church . Rev. William Simpson talked about his first fiddle . As a speaker he is pro- still fit as a fiddle . I don't know how he plays . No 17th of March gram would be complete without " When Irish Eyes Are Smiling " and " I'll Take You Home Again , Kathleen , " so Leonard Peterson them both and the congregation joined in on the chorus and smiled with their Irish eyes , but Leonard didn't need anybody to help him take Kathleen home again . He could do that all by himself . - Mrs . Cushing , who has run a boarding house for so long a time in Hart , now finds herself romance and a vacation from so many dishes . She mar- ried Charlie Rellinger and is going to settle down to a little more liesure and not pare so many dishpansful of potatoes . They may wind up the old phonograph and teach it to play " Silver Threads Among the Gold . " - Keith Corliss , the grocer in Mears when you turn the corner around , sells parsnips and cabbages , celery and head lettuce and bread by Schramm to eat with your scrambled eggs . adv . - Neil DePotter . who braids the tails of the race horses so they will look handsome . got tired of eating out of a sardine can so he said to Nellie Cummings : " Nellie , how you coming ? " And she pointed to the motto card on her dining room wall that says to " keep smiling . " " I always try to cheerful , " she told him , " but it is a little lonesome at times . " And Neil DePotter reasoned it all out with her : " I'm lonesome and you're lone- some , why can't we be lonesome together ? " So they up and got mar- ried . For the present Neil parks his old gray car out in front of her house , but after the tires are all worn out he may tie the old gray mare to the tree and they can go cutter riding and cut quite a figure .-- Hurry ! hurry ! We have some almost new tires for sale on two 1938 Plymouths , two 37 " 85 " Fords , a 1940 Buick , and others too numerous to mention . Come in and buy these tires and we'll throw the car in . Steen's Superservice , the home of Blue Sunoco in Hart . - Fred Deutsch- mann is up from Indiana for a vacation at the old home in the plains along the Pentwater river and he helped his father cut down a poplar tree to make the range crackle . - Ted Lambrix has a manure spreader on his marl truck so he can scatter the slop over a 40 acre field and be home in time for beans . You've heard of razor - back hogs in Missouri and razor - back cattle in Arkansaw : well Ted Lambrix has a razor- back house in the plains and if the sky should fall on it , the ridge would cut it plumb in two . - Miss Alice Radomski was home for a con- ple of weeks with her parents in the plains and enjoyed the daily thrill

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of walking half a mile to the mail box , exercise which made her hungry for her mother's strawberry jam , but not so exerting as tramp- ing the distance on snow shoes as she used to do in a winter that was owlier . Harold Stahl is going to mary Alexandra Liska from the Heights . Mildred Pangborn entertained Rose Jeffries and her sister Cassie at dinner today.Peter Bosch was buried in New Era Tuesday after 70 years which began in The Netherlands . - Monday evening the Pentwater high school band , about 35 boys and girls , made memorable music in the Mears town hall . It was an entertainment long to be re- membered . Their performance was a credit to their painstaking in- structor , Director Peterson . Miss Janet Pearce waved her hand for the girls to sing . Refreshments were passed to the drummer , the cornets , the saxophones , the flutes and every participant in the elegant noise.- In the middle of the winter I do not go to Pentwater much , but when March winds cut the ice and the lake swallows the fish shanties that did not run for shore , then I go back to see the spring activity on Han- cock street . Wilbur Castle was leaning against the drawers in the drug store , the dime store was putting up an awning , Mary Ross Potter was back from the east , Allen Williams was steering the pickup express , Cecil Stover was wrapping up fish , and at the long bridge Bill Hart- man was baiting his hook for suckers . - Carl Jensen will have an auc- tion Thursday , March 26 , at 1:00 o'clock , 1½ miles east of Pentwater and 1½ miles north . - Mr . and Mrs. Kenneth Gowell have a son , born on Friday , March 13th . - Mrs . M. A. Davis is having a new house built in Hart and will move there after a while . It is on State street in the southern half of the village . - Buy bonds and stamps and swat the Japs and hit Hitler . We used to associate Japan with fragile cherry blos- soms and delicate china teacups and pink landscape mats to hang on the wall , but now we know the Japanese as a cruel and treacherous people who cling to age - old traditions of cruelty and torture their prisoners by tieing them over beds of bamboo and watering the sharp fast - growing spear - like points until they pierce through the living vic- tim and grow through his body and slowly kill him . Buy stamps , buy bonds and swat the Japs . - Granville Acker has been named the candi- date for supervisor of Golden township on the Democratic ticket . Gran- ville is a hustler from way back and has lived in East Golden most all his life . East Golden once was quite a burg and had a depot , saw mill and post office . The cardinal principles of fair play and square deal- ing are ingrained in Granville Acker . He would make a good super- visor , and represent all parts of the township , not forgetting the dirt farmers on the back roads . A vote for Granville will be appreciated at the Golden township election . April 6 . election , April 6. ( Political Advertisement . ) - For Sale : 20 acres , one mile to village limits of Hart . Michigan . Sev- en acres of hardwood timber , 175 bearing apple trees , running stream . 4 - room house . Power and telephone line in front of house on good coun- ty road . School ½ mile . Terms . H. C. Salisbury - Lena VanGunst has gone to Chicago to see the new hats . - Orel Burdick , the chemist , may not be making gunpowder but he is working at the Cannon foundry in Muskegon . He is up with the big guns now . On pay day , buy bonds.- Coal in your bin now for the winter of 1942-43 may save worry . Ask us for prices . Wood at yard , $ 1.35 cord . Shelby Ice & Fuel Co. Ph . 157 . Stock powder , stock preparations , first aid supplies , shaving needs to cut the weeds at Collins ' Pharmacy , the corner drug store in Hart You need some gas to make her go over these roads of ice and snow : stop and honk for Ervin Gleason , US - 31 at the trax is the road he's on . Just 1¼ miles off the pavement . Mrs. Eva Osborn of Hart has a dandy little 15 - acre place with some fruit on it and a dandy house ,